Christoph Ono creates beautiful and useful digital products and services.
Wookmark is a tool to collect and discover great images
Albert Einstein said that the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Wookmark is a pretty good hiding spot.
Initially born out of a personal need, Wookmark has grown from a fun side project into a buzzing online community. It’s as much a personal tool for image bookmarking, as it is a large archive of creative work, and websites showcasing great art and design. One of the most interesting aspects of this project for me is to find ways of extracting useful information from this large data set.
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Get inspired by the many images others have collected.
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Images are shown in original size with full details.
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Your personal profile brings all your images together.
About me
I’m a design and tech guy who develops interactive products and services on a variety of platforms. After studying design, spending seven years in the interactive agency realm, and becoming the world’s #1 unicorn and rainbow service provider, I founded my own business as a basis to create oustanding work.
Over the years I’ve takend many roles, from interactive developer, UI designer, UX strategist, to project manager. That’s the way I prefer it, since my goal is to help push projects in whatever way is the most effective and leads to the best possible outcome.
Growing up with computers, and educated in traditional visual communication design, I’ve spend the first 7 years of my career in the interactive agency world. 6 of those years I was at Fi, an world-class interactive firm, where I had the opportunity to work with amazing talent and clients.
Between my professional work, building apps, portals, and campaigns for companies like MTV and CNN, and my personal explorations with technology, my passion for design and technology has not diminished.
Germany’s Best Kept Secret is my business for developing and publishing digital products and services. My goal is to develop products that excel on all levels, from user experience, to the use of technology, to the business side, and most importantly, being useful.
No matter where you are, certain information is very relevant to your location. From the schedule of the conference you are at, to the happy hour specials in your neighborhood, to the fact that you’re standing on front of a historic building.
Lokalito is a very early experiment to find the information that helps you most wherever you are.
Past work
I’ve been very fortunate to work with extremely talented people and great clients over the years. This is a collection of the projects I am most proud of. My involvement and responsibilities ranged from Flash, PHP and HTML(5) development, to wire framing, user experience strategy, project management and other roles. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating on a project.
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Porsche Panamera
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Nintendo MarioKart
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MTV
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EA Sports MMA
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Porsche Panamera
Helping Porsche launch the Panamera in North America was very exciting. This Flash project was very ambitious and was rewarded with a Webby award, an FWA award and several other recognitions.
Highlight of the site was a family tree populated with user-submitted stories about Porsche. -
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MTV.com
This groundbreaking project from early 2006 was about creating an online music video portal. Consistent video playback from MTVs catalogue of 50000 music video throughout the web browsing experience was an extremely difficult task to achieve from a technical and usability perspective.
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EA Sports MMA
Online video games are becoming competitive sports and EA is on the fore-front of this development. In this initiatve we built a community site with leaderboards, user-created fights and video content, as well as a portal for broadcasting commentated fights between console players.
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Google College Hoops
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EA NCAA TeamBuilder
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AOL
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Kontain
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Google College Hoops
This Basketball shoot-out was an easter egg for Google's March Madness site. When activated, users had 30 seconds to make as many points as possible. The exciting part of this project was that it was completely built in HTML5, including complex particle effects, dynamic simulation of the net and other details.
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EA NCAA TeamBuilder
EA wanted to give fans of their football video games the option to create their own teams to play with. We built an extremely visual and interactive tool that resulted in 100,000 user-created teams in the first month after release.
One of the most powerful aspects of this project was that teams created online could then be played on XBOX 360 and PS3. -
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AOL.com
AOL invited us to be part of their creative, strategic exploration phase for reinventing AOL for today's web users. It was extremely interesting to work with the top teams at AOL and define a user experience strategy and design direction.
The designs on the left show some of your early creative explorations. -
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Kontain
Created with Fi
Kontain is a social network for highly visual people. It was a great experience to develop a community-oriented product from scratch, especially since the focus was on design and usability.
Kontain is alsoa white-label product and used by Burton, Ducati and other brands for their community sites. -
